Mr. Turski, a Polish journalist who survived Auschwitz as a teenager, urged the world not to be indifferent to the persecution of minorities.

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died.

Polish Holocaust survivor, historian and journalist Marian Turski has died aged 98.Born in 1926, Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.

The International Auschwitz Committee president and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski has died aged 98, a Polish weekly magazine he worked for said on Tuesday. "Marian Turski has died.